There’s a bit of a bombshell report out on social media, and now corroborated by English journalists, ahead of Spurs’ match against Liverpool today. Matteo Moretto broke the news that Tottenham’s co-Sporting Director Fabio Paratici is wanted by Serie A side Fiorentina to be their new Director of Football.
Apparently Fiorentina, currently last in Serie A with six points in 15 games
and likely headed for relegation if they can’t engineer a great escape in the second half of the season, wants to bring the Don back to Italy on a five year deal.
Moretto’s report was later corroborated by Matt Law, though Law notably states that Spurs have not received an official approach from Fiorentina for Paratici. So that’s the official club line, though who actually knows!
Your reaction to this news is likely a Rorschach test for your Tottenham fandom. If you are of the opinion that the tandem duo of Johan Lange and Paratici are at the core of Tottenham’s misfortunes in building the current squad, the idea of Paratici going home to mama might not disappoint you too much! On the other hand, if Paratici does leave that does leave a critical vacancy right before the start of the January transfer window, one that potentially could leave more power in the hands of Lange. Annnnnnnnnnnnnnd…
It would be a little weird that Paratici would bolt for an Italian club that’s likely going to be playing in Serie B next season so soon after returning to Spurs in an official capacity, especially when Spurs were the club that allowed him to keep “working” in football during his ban over his involvement in the Juventus plusvalenza scandal. But maybe Fiorentina would provide him the challenge of rebuilding a former Italian power from scratch, and offers a return to working a high level job in his home country. That would make some sense to me too, I guess.
We’ll be tracking this story as it develops.
